Terence Quotes
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.
Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
